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thanks - but rather than add to lessening privacy - I would choose to
archive stuff on my own hard drives, since they are at $0.50 per GB these
days. I use a 120GB to backup my 80's via Acronis which compresses well.


-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Haisley [mailto:mhaisley@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 10:21 AM
To: avr-chat@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] What makes 'Gmail' so special?



Gmail is distinctive in a lot of ways, and provides a lot of features,
that are not present in most other clients.

First off: Space, a whopping 1GB of space comes with each account.

Second and probably most important is google's search functions, are
built into the email client, I can create labels using a google-type
search of my inbox, and call up all messages, for example pertaining
to AVRs, traditionally, with most clients you can create folders, and
do kinda the same thing, but the nice thing about this is, that you
can have multiple labels per message, Ie in the previous example, I
could have a message on AVR Programmers that would get the label
hardware, & the label AVR, this makes sorting much easier.

Third, is the way individual messages, are handled, google groups them
in threads, much like a usenet type newsgroup, all replys are grouped
with the original message, so that you can read them together, in
context.

The other big feature is archiving, with 1 GB of space, you really
don't need to delete email that often, if at all so I could quickly
search my inbox, and find a message from several months ago.

-Mike


On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 11:41:48 -0500, Bill Velek <billvelek@alltel.net> wrote:
> snipped stuff about Google's 'Gmail' and needing an invitation, etc.
>
> I'm curious whether 'Gmail' has anything that sets it apart from, let's
> say, 'Hotmail'.  I've had a couple of Hotmail accounts over the years
> that I practically _never_ use, and then I guess they end up expiring or
> something.  I only use one in rare instances when I want to communicate
> with someone but feel that there might be some significant chance of
> getting severely spammed.  Otherwise, I just use my regular email
> address that my ISP has included as part of my monthly connection fee,
> and with the filter that Netscape 7 provides, I get practically no spam
> at all.  The only significant spam nuisance that I am forced to contend
> with is the crap that those assholes put on newsgroups.  Does anyone
> know of a filter that will work for newsgroups?  And what makes Gmail
> distinctive?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Bill Velek
>
>
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